Gary Williams has spent over thirty years assisting Bay Area owners of income producing real estate with their buying and selling needs. His experience includes the handling of complex transactions involving: apartment complexes, office buildings, retail centers, industrial properties and raw land. A number of these assignments have involved tax deferred exchanges and bank owned assets. The properties have been located throughout the Bay Area as well as in other western states, and have ranged in price between $1 million and $14 million.
Given his background in marketing, Gary is especially adept at designing and implementing comprehensive marketing plans to assist owners in disposing of difficult to sell assets. A number of these successful assignments are described in the "Sold Properties" section of this site and several comments from satisfied clients are shown below.
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After her husband passed away, one of my clients was forced to sell a mixed use building they had owned for many years. On her own she contacted two local commercial brokers, both of whom told her the building was worth $1 million. I realized that the building had a substantial amount of deferred maintenance, but nevertheless thought the building was probably worth more than that. I asked Gary Williams to provide an estimate of value and he came back with a value of $1.5 million. My client listed the property with Gary and had, within two weeks, a full price offer. The transaction closed a month later and she and I were obviously extremely happy that we had gotten Gary involved in the process.
My partner and I were interested in exchanging out of several small buildings we had owned for several decades and acquiring triple net leased retail properties in the North Bay. Since we had had such good experiences dealing with Gary Williams in the past, we hired Gary on an exclusive basis to locate suitable trade properties for us. Over the coming months he found us two Arby’s restaurants and an extremely attractive retail center in the North Bay. With Gary’s assistance we were able to complete our exchanges and are now looking forward to holding these properties for many years.
An old friend contacted me and told me that his family was selling a 10 unit apartment building. He wondered if I might be interested in buying it. Having bought and successfully sold several properties through Gary Williams, I contacted Gary and asked for his professional help in evaluating the property. I then had him present an offer on my behalf and we got the property into escrow. That was especially difficult since two of the selling family members were constantly fighting with each other. We then uncovered over $100,000 worth of pest control work which had to be dealt with. Somehow Gary was able to negotiate a $100,000 price reduction from the fueding family and we got the escrow closed. This was just one of several extremely complicated transactions Gary has handled on my behalf, and I strongly recommend his services.
It became necessary to sell our 198 acre college campus in Marin County and one of my board members had three major San Francisco commercial brokerage firms put together proposals to market the property. Shortly before we were ready to make a selection my stockbroker recommended Gary Williams as someone we should consider. Even though he had little time to prepare, Gary made a presentation to me which I considered to be superior to the other three. After lengthy discussions with another board member, Gary was selected and listed the property for $8.5 million. Several months later he was able to produce a multiple offer situation which resulted in closing the sale at an $8 million price. I was very impressed with the service Gary provided to us and consider him to be a true professional in the commercial real estate field.
